MEXICO: On the Mark

Down Mexico City's broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential
Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white
letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new
and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's
mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then
they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting
had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the
shooting may be expected momentarily.